Word: filho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back home," says Cafe Filho, "I got fine offers from companies seeking congressional favors or government contracts. I did not think it was right to accept...
...Most Latin American Presidents have money," said Brazilian ex-President Joao Cafe Filho last week, his tone a bit wistful. "I did not have anything when I took office, and I had nothing when I left." Four years after he left the presidency, Cafe Filho (TIME, Cover, Dec. 6, 1954) still has nothing-or next to it. His poverty is so impressive that the legislature of his tiny, impoverished home state of Rio Grande do Norte last week voted him a pension of 40,000 cruzeiros ($240) a month for life...
...crusading years as a newspaper editor and political reformer, Cafe Filho, who is now 60, never took a dishonest penny. Once, in answer to a bribery attempt, he coolly struck a match to a proffered check. Exiled, jailed, beaten, he became Brazil's Vice President in 1951, and President when Getulio Vargas committed suicide...
...monthly salary of $700, but much of it went to treat a pair of heart attacks and a stroke that left his left side paralyzed. When his salary, his savings and his term ran out, a friendly doctor treated him free. "I took massage and special exercises," says Cafe Filho. "I forced my muscles to move again." In 1956 Brazil's Varig airline flew him to the U.S. free for treatment by Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White...
...crippled and still ill, he "did not think that was right, either." In 1957, when he could work again, he took his present job as president of a small real-estate firm. Current salary: $180 a month. Scrimping, saving, and struggling with a budget have not made Cafe Filho bitter. He lives with his wife, Jandyra, 56, (they have a son, 16, who is preparing for the naval academy), in the three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Beach where he has lived for the past 15 years, even as President. "I'm not disappointed," he says...